Sands of the Desert
Sands of the Desert
Release: 1960-09-08
·Runtime: 92m
·★ 6.3
Comedy
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Associated British Picture Corporation
Cast
Peter Arne
as Sheikh El Jabez
Sarah Branch
as Janet Brown
Martin Benson
as Selim
Judith Furse
as Yasmin
Andreas Malandrinos
as Rashid
Jim Brady
as Arab (uncredited)
Paul Stassino
as Pilot
Martin Boddey
as Mertons
Charlie Drake
as Charlie Sands
Eric Pohlmann
as Scrobin
Lisa Peake
as 1st Handmaiden
Michael Peake
as 2nd Tourist Official
Peter Illing
as Sheikh Ibrahim
Charles Carson
as Philpotts
Beth Rogan
as Air Hostess
Raymond Huntley
as Bossom
Neil McCarthy
as Hassan
Alan Tilvern
as Mustafa
Tutte Lemkow
as Bus Driver
Harold Kasket
as Abdulla
Roger Delgado
as Abu Nlal
Marne Maitland
as Advisor to Sheikh
Robert Brown
as 1st Tourist
